Display package and container for bait



ot.24, 1933. C T PFLUEGER 1,932,353

DISPLAY PACKAGE AND CONTAINER FOR BAIT Filed July 17, 1931 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS Patented ct. 24

This invention relat containers for bait, a

D STA DISPLAY PACKAGE A ND CONTAINER FOR AIT Charles T.'Pueger, Akron, Ohio, assignor to The Enterprise Manufacturing Company,

Akron,

Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application July 17, 1931. Serial No. 551,347

5 Claims.

es to display package and nd more especially it relates to transparent containers for fish bait, for example, a lure,` including a hook or hooks.

The chief objects of the invention are to provide a receptacle for bait of the character mentioned which conveniently may be carried in the pocket; to prevent rattling of the bait within the container; to provide a bait receptacle which may be used as a display package for the bait;

to provide for keeping tion within therpackage; .for the display of advertising the package; and to keep lures from tarnishing.

the bait xedly in posito provide conveniently matter within bait comprising metal Oi the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a container, and the bait and mount therefor Ain elevation therein, the assembly constituting the improved display packag Figure 2 is a View similar to Figure 1 at right angles thereto, the cap of the container being removed; and

neck il', and a metal latter. cardboard or similar normally is longer than project from the open Interiorly of the container 10 is cap 12 threaded onto the a strip of iiexible material v15 that the container so as to end thereof when the cap is removed as is most clearly shown in Figure 2. Adjacent one end the strip 15 is formed with an aperture 16, Figure passed a shhook 17,

1, through which may be and said fishhook may be A a part of a lure 18 including a wobbler 19 and swivel attaching link 20.

When the flexible strip 15 with shhook or lure the container 10 or both mounted and the cap 12 mounted therethe strip 15 will flex as indicated at 21, and

thereon is placed within become bowed or concave-convex in shape with the lure 18 on the convex side thereof, the strip 'constituting a backgro play oi the lure. strip l5 either forces und for the attractive dis- The result is that the bowed the lure against the interior surface of the container, or at least confines it in such a small space that little or no movement of the lure tainer or strip 15 is held by the cap agains container.

with relation to the conpossible, and said strip is t relative movement in the (Cl. 20G-46) 1f desired, appropriate informative or advertising matter may be printed upon the strip 15, on the concave side thereof, and such matter will be visible through the container. Since thereV is no relative movement of the article in the container after the cap is screwed thereon, it will be seen that the assembly constitutes a display package which may be suitably mounted or otherwise arranged for display, the articles always rey taining their original positions in the containers.

Various articles may be mounted on the ilexible strip in the container, and the invention accomplishes the several objects set forth in the foregoing statement of objects.

After the bait has been used, the bottle or container constitutes a convenient means for carrying the bait in the pocket, protecting the hook, and preventing its entanglement in the pocket or tackle-box of the fisherman, It also serves to preserve the finish on the bait.

Modifications may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims which are not limited wholly to the specific construction shown and described.

What is claimed is:

l. In a device of the character described, the combination of a transparent container including a closure therefor, a flexible display card in the container, said card being longer than the container and flexed by operation of the closure, and an articley on the convex side of the card and urged by the latter, from behind, toward the. wall of the container.

2. A device of the character escribed comprising a tubular container open at one end, a closure for said open end, a strip of fiexible material in said container, said strip being of such length as to be placed under longitudinal compression and bowed by pressure of the closure when the latter is mounted upon the container,

Aso

land an article of merchandise mounted upon the said strip having greater length than the container so as to be bowed when the closure is applied to the container, with the article on the convex side of the bow so as to be urged by the strip, from behind, toward the wall of the container.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination of a transparent container, a strip of exible material in the container, an article CHARLES T. PFLUEGER. 

